[Iceman]

Just wondering do many of you F1 fans like A1?

[AngRemembered]

What exactly is A1 racing?, I've never heard of it before

[Iceman]

em the kind of brief description is it's countries racing each other as opposed to drivers and theirs 2 races a sprint race which is short usually around 20 mins and a feature race which is much longer. The other major thing is that the teams use the "same" engine. Hope that helps!

[Novo]

which is the one jeremy and luke hines in again

F3 or A3 ???

[Iceman]

Originally posted by .Andy.
which is the one jeremy and luke hines in again

F3 or A3 ???

To be honest i'm not too sure mate, are they british drivers yeah?

[pinkmichk]

never heard of it before

[AngRemembered]

Originally posted by RiotVan
em the kind of brief description is it's countries racing each other as opposed to drivers and theirs 2 races a sprint race which is short usually around 20 mins and a feature race which is much longer. The other major thing is that the teams use the "same" engine. Hope that helps!

Oh wow, now to me that sounds a lot more interesting than the F1 format. I'm glad I asked now, I'll certainly look to watch this when its on.
Thanks for the explanation

[Iceman]

It's still in it's infant years, 4 or 5 i'm not too sure, the whole idea of it is that everyone has the "same" car so it should show off driver talent if you know what i mean.

[Novo]

Originally posted by RiotVan

To be honest i'm not too sure mate, are they british drivers yeah?

yeah jeremy was in big brother celelbrity hijack and luke hines is his partner

there both british

[Spike]

I don't like it
F1 is so much better

[pinkmichk]

where are the races held?

[Iceman]

Oh i didn't watch hijack last year, oops. Em no their not in A1, as far as i know the british driver is Danny Watts.

[Iceman]

Originally posted by pinkmichk
where are the races held?

There was only supposed to be 9 races this season but they added Brazil recently so ther's 10 in total.

They've already had 3 races at the end of last year they were in the Netherlands, China and Malaysia.

The upcoming one is on the 25th in New Zealand, then the other 6 are Indonesia and South Africa(both in February), Mexico(March), Portugal(April) and Britain and Brazil(May).

[pinkmichk]

another question (sorry) is it shown on normal tv or just sports channels cos i might watch just to see what its like and stuff (i already watch touring car and F1 and sometimes go watch drag racing live)

[Iceman]

Originally posted by pinkmichk
another question (sorry) is it shown on normal tv or just sports channels cos i might watch just to see what its like and stuff (i already watch touring car and F1 and sometimes go watch drag racing live)

Em we get it here in Ireland on TV3 i don't know if you get that, it's also on sky sports and some highlights are shown on setanta(Very basic though) I also just checked and i think Five may show highlights not too sure though. Hope that helps.

[pinkmichk]

of all those i only get channel 5 but will keep a eye out

[Spike]

Its shown on Sky Sports in the UK

[Iceman]

There's also an official youtube channel with highlight vids here's the link http://www.youtube.com/user/A1GPOFFICIAL. That should give you a good basis to catch up.

[James]

Yeah, I watch it. It has some pretty good single-seater racing. You can watch the races live for free on the A1 GP website which is great.

http://www.a1gp.com/

Originally posted by .Andy.
which is the one jeremy and luke hines in again

F3 or A3 ???

They were racing in the British GT championship.

[Iceman]

[quote]Originally posted by James
Yeah, I watch it. It has some pretty good single-seater racing. You can watch the races live for free on the A1 GP website which is great.

http://www.a1gp.com/

Thanks James i didn't actually know they streamed it!

[Iceman]

Ireland still top of standings after the races today

[James]

I was going to remember to watch the races today from Portugal but the A1GP website says they are not showing it live today because of satellite issues. It's only on Sky Sports live.

Team GBR should bring back Danny Watts, he's much better than this new guy they've got.

[Iceman]

Here's the results for the sprint race!


RESULTS: Sprint race

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Pos A1 Team Driver Laps Time Gap
1 Netherlands Robert Doornbos 11 19'33.501
2 Ireland Adam Carroll 11 19'37.136 3.635
3 Portugal Filipe Albuquerque 11 19'39.229 5.728
4 Italy Vitantonio Liuzzi 11 19'42.588 9.087
5 Monaco Clivio Piccione 11 19'43.549 10.048
6 India Narain Karthikeyan 11 19'46.097 12.596
7 Brazil Felipe Guimarães 11 19'46.798 13.297
8 Malaysia Fairuz Fauzy 11 19'51.515 18.014
9 Mexico Salvador Durán 11 19'54.046 20.545
10 Australia John Martin 11 19'56.184 22.683
11 Great Britain Dan Clarke 11 19'56.581 23.080
12 USA Marco Andretti 11 19'56.655 23.154
13 France Nicolas Prost 11 19'57.676 24.175
14 Indonesia Zahir Ali 11 20'12.901 39.400
15 Switzerland Neel Jani 11 20'17.797 44.296
16 China Ho-Pin Tung 11 20'24.156 50.655
17 South Africa Adrian Zaugg 9 21'05.398 2 laps
18 Lebanon Daniel Morad 1 2'38.560 10 laps
19 Germany André Lotterer 0 11 laps
20 New Zealand Earl Bamber 0 11 laps

[Iceman]

Ireland came second in both races today!

[James]

Mexico round has been cancelled for obvious reasons so GB round this weekend is the final race of the season. Qualifying this afternoon, races tomorrow. Live streaming online for anyone interested, think I'll remember to watch this time.

http://www.a1gp.com/about/promotion.aspx?id=31

What happenned to Iceman btw, is he not posting anymore?